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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/teubner/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/teubner/README index 86b7d308de4..80166b52a72 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/teubner/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/teubner/README @@ -1,120 +1,36 @@ - EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING +This accompanies the teubner bundle version 3.0 dated April 2010. +Copyright 2010 Claudio Beccari -Copyright 2001-2006 Claudio Beccari +The bundle contains the files -The programs contained in this bundle can be redistributed and/or -modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License -Distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; -either version 1.3 of the License, or any later version. +README this file +teubner.txt a more descriptive file +teubner.dtx the documented TeX source file +teubner.ins the installation file +teubner-doc.pdf an extended documentation file -This bundle contains the following files +The bundle is distributed under the LPPL license version 1.3c or any later version. -teubner.txt this file -teubner.dtx documented TeX file -teubner.ins installation file -teubner-doc.pdf documentation file -teubner-doc.tex source documentation file +The bundle has the status of author maintained. -File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can -be done with this extension package and displays several examples. -The first edition of this file could not resort to scalable type 1 Greek -fonts (2001); by the end of 2002 such fonts were available on CTAN, -therefore this edition not only reports the enhancements introduced in -version 2.0 but also it displays and prints perfectly. +The main purpose of this bundle is to provide classical philologists with some +means for typesetting their documents that usually contain very specific notation. -In order to use this extension package with LaTeX you have to -install it. Run teubner.ins through LaTeX; the generated file is -teubner.sty and must be moved where TeX the program can find it. -This depends very much on your particular implementation of the -TeX system, but if your system copes with the standard TeX -directory structure and with a multiplicity of different root -directory structures, you probably have a localtexmf root, -containing a tex directory which on turn contains a latex -directory. Under the latter directory create a new directory, -named, say, teubner, and move there teubner.sty. +This new version allows the typesetter to use both "italic" shapes: the Olga-like +and the Lipsian-like ones; it contains extended accent macros that avoid the kerning +problems that arise with the ligature mechanism embedded in the LGR encoded default +CBgreek fonts; is compatible with the use of different scalable Latin Type~1 fonts; contains new designs for the horizontally stretchable markers, et cetera. -I suggest you to create a directory teubner in the doc directory -of the localtexmf rooted structure and move there both -teubner-doc.pdf and teubner.dvi that you get by running LaTeX -directly on teubner.dtx. +The byproducts of the installation consists in a LGRaccents-gyphs.def file that might +be separately input and used also without the teubner bundle. Moreover this new +version generates on the fly the necessary font description files necessary to use the +LGR encoded Greek fonts with non TeX standard PostScript fonts; for example it +automatically generates the necessary .fd files if using the TX or the PX fonts; with +other Type 1 fonts the necessary .fd files require manual intervention, which simply +means giving a suitable command from within another open file that loads teubner. -For what concerns the fonts, I suggest you download the type 1 pdf fonts -from CTAN: there you can get also the tfm files and the sources for all -the Greek and metric symbol files; in case you prefer to use the raster -fonts generated by METAFONT you can download also the source METAFONT -files. - - -In the texmf rooted directory structure there should be a file -under fontname, named special.map; edit such file and possibly add the -line - -gmtr public teubner - -possibly preceded by a comment line of the form - -@c Metric symbols font - -This last task is not really necessary, but it is useful, because -the generated tfm and pixel files will be automatically deposited -in the proper directories, with no confusion with other fonts. - -Another important step is to control that you have the latest CB -Greek fonts; even if you got them installed with the TeX system -installation program, may be they are not the latest version, -compatible with this extension package. Control your cbgreek.txt -file and at the end of the file there is its date; this date -should be not earlier than 15th of August 2002. If the date is earlier -than this, connect to CTAN and download the latest version of the CB -Greek fonts both in METAFONT and in pfb type 1 format. Follow the -instructions for inserting the proper files in the proper directories, -and for adding the proper map file to the configuration files of dvips -and pdfLaTeX. If you already had the metric tfm files, remember to -delete them in order to have them generated on the fly by LaTeX or -pdfLaTeX, or download the newer tfm files from CTAN. - - -Another question you might ask yourself: is my TeX system complete and -up to date? The fact you installed a TeX system and you did not have the -CB fonts may be an index that you still have the babel package locked at -a version number earlier than 3.7. I suggest you to upgrade your TeX -system to the most up to date one you can find on CTAN. - -After all these steps are done, you are ready to use your teubner -extensions; it will not be easy at the beginning, because there -are hundreds of new commands. Be sure to have already thoroughly -read the documentation file teubner-doc.pdf and that you have the -hard copy close to you. Remember though that most commands are -latin names or abbreviations that should be familiar to any -philologist specialized in classical/ancient European languages, -such as classical Greek, classical Latin, et cetera. - -This set of extension commands has been tested in several -documents; nevertheless I prepared them as a hobby, in the hope of -helping a philologist friend. I hope this package may be useful -also to you, but I must disclaim any liability for any unwanted -results you might get, including the worst possible things that my -happen to anybody working with a computer. I will not write down -any strong disclaimer sentence in capital letters, because it -should be absolutely evident that I did something I consider -useful, but is up to you to decide to use it and to face the -consequences (... which nevertheless I hope they are what you -expected). - -If you find this package of some utility and you find some errors -and/or some glitches, please write me by e-mail -(claudio.beccari@polito.it). If you'd like me to realize some other -commands, please send me by e-mail your request together with a -scanned image containing the visual result you'd like to obtain. I -do not guarantee I'll be able to satisfy your request, but I'll -give it a try. In any case don't ask things LaTeX can't do; and if -you use LaTeX, you know what are its pros and cons. - -Happy philological LaTeXing! +Please, be sure to work with a 2010 updated collection of the CBgreek fonts. Claudio Beccari -Dipartimento di Elettronica -Politecnico di Torino, Italy - -Turin, 16th of January 2006 +claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
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